This forum is so active and I know somewhere?? everyone posted what projects they would be working on for 2008. I've looked and looked and can't find it, probably "lost" somewhere in the 1644 threads I'm watching :((( It might not have even been on this thread but what I'm actually looking for is the project that I think Patti (bbrookrd) posted of her water feature (stream). If my memory is correct, she had some valuable information and photos of the project. I'm working on a similar idea on a much smaller scale and would love to be able find this - can anyone help me, I'm lost! LOL
Help!!! Where's "Victor's List"?
I think your looking back into the Decembers post.
Here is one that NE people were talking about doing.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/798102/
There was another one around that link, something like, Are you a designer or a gardner.....something like that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I found what I was looking for http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4165611 :))) Now I just need to check out all the information and see if something like this is feasible for me.
I really appreciate your help!
Debbie
Debbie, I Dmailed you. Now running off to work on more of my "Victor List" which includes more mundane stuff than the stream, but all part of the fall list of chores to finish before May that was inspired by the task master, and man who has a very inspirational garden and pond, Victorgardener. The birds are bathing in the stream at this moment and the bulbs are starting to bloom along it. Love it. Patti
Feels like I'm being eulogized!!
Victor, No, but I would be happy to have a "Roast" for you as would my DH who has just heard about some "new" additions to the list that you helped ignite, blackberries. Thanks again. You will have to visit sometime to see your garden. Off to drag off more brush to the bonfire pile. Patti
Don't burn any PI!
Hahaha Victor - no way. If we were to do that we would call you the Pitch Fork Man! LOL
PI, I am just getting over the last batch. But now I am armed with your good recommendations and advice. Tecno or something like that. Good stuff. It is hard not to burn PI by accident, but I try to stay on the up wind side. Maybe I will do a stick guy in orange and burn it in your honor as a sign of total respect for you, my ethereal garden guy from the Hudson. I might do marshmallow-somemores too. Cause every time I read one of your articles or postings, I want some more of everything. Dear DH is cringing. Patti
Ha ha - thanks, Patti. I think DH might want to make a little, orange-clad voodoo doll of me...
Here is a link to Public Auction Storage. People don't pay their rent. Auctioneer comes in they open the doors and you bid. You don't get to rummage threw it. He auctions it, you own and you take it. What ever is in there reguardless! I've seen some wicked good deal go for little to nothing. I have seen a lot of outdoor items. One door they opened up and it was all yard deco stuff, what I could see. They are all over NE.
http://www.storageauctionsolutions.com/Calendar/index.htm
Victor, I have one of DH in Vt to keep me company when he isn't up there. It is pin free so far. I do collect sad and scary dolls. Here is one of my kids. Patti
Van Gogh used it to practice on before he lopped off his own left ear. Patti
yikes.
That is one sadistic looking smile!
Oh my goodness, is he related to Chucky? Not exactly a bedtime doll is it, but I'm glad somebody loves it and gave it a home.
Yes, I thought of Chucky too!
I have many more. I never played with dolls as a kid, but I like the pathetic ones now. It is sort of like picking up stray animals, but far less of a commitment. Patti
Yikes, "Chucky" is kind of freaky!!!
LOL Victor, we're not picking on you, but have to admit the "task master" has inspired all of us :)
Patti, thank you so much - I've looked at the link you sent me - extremely helpful instructions for my project. If this project actually gets started, I'll be sure to keep you posted. Right now the most difficult part of getting started is convincing my DH that "we" can do it! Unfortunately I think I'm on my own on this one :(
Here was my most reluctant and skeptical DH two days ago in the rain after deciding to go out in the swamp and get more moss for that stupid folly of an endless stream that I had to have and then dug. He now is obsessed with it. He loves the sound, adores the birds and the look and it is still winter! Here is an album that shows the project, plus me playing in the dirt. All started because of reading a thread from Shihtzumom to SongsofJoy on DG and then from Dmail help from them both. Here is the first thread that inspired me. Patti
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/702344/
http://picasaweb.google.com/bbrookrd/ENDLESSSTREAMALBUM
Patti!
Such a great slideshow! Thank you for sharing it.
Wonderful show, a lot of work but seeing the results it certainly was worth it. It is so nice your DH is into the whole thing too. One thing no one hardly ever talks about is how they dealt with the electrical stuff. Did you have an electrician come or do you use an extension cord or what? Do you need a trip fault plug installed? Have you ever heard of anyone using a solar pump?
Great questions, ngam!
I'd like to know, too!
My installer (the guy who cuts my grass) did mine. Installed a GFI outlet outside, which is on a dedicated circuit breaker. The motor is close enough that an extension cord was not needed. My pump / motor came with the whole kit. If there is a solar pump with a 1 HP capacity, I imagine it would be mucho expensive. And what happens at night??
Thanks all. We had an outside plug already available. We are going to run a conduit along the house and under the path to the cord of the pump which will be buried, but easily accessible. I have a timer for it as well and for the yet to be bought and installed underwater lights. So there is still work to be done soon. I also want a light in the tree to shine down so it looks "moon-lite" at night. Don't remember who suggested that, but it is a great idea. We don't like the shape of the deep end so "WE", yes he wants to help now, will adjust that in the next few weeks. The buried pump in the vault has been able to be turned on when the water is not frozen all winter. The birds love it, more than the feeders. We did not take it out to winterize it as we would not normally get frozen ground that deep. But it is an easy thing to do if necessary, says DH.
I can't wait to see what returns from the previous planting and then get it ready for all the new kids I have on order or am now growing from seed. Looking down from an upstairs room, I also see we need to cut this branch off from an overly exuberant London Plane tree ( Platanus x acerifolia ). Fortunately Santa gave himself a taller ladder for Xmas, so he should be able to lop it off with the chain saw. That branch is also attacking the house so it needs to go for that reason alone as well as for the view.
The pictures of Victor's pond are my new inspiration. I have visions of Japanese Maples dancing in my head after seeing his pond with thoughts of Hakonechloa, Carex, Heuchera, Trilliums, Tricyrtis, Jack In The Pulpits, digitalis and Primulas etc. I hope I can shake enough coins out of Uncle Sam to get a couple of JM for it. I ordered the others as they were affordable. But I will need a big something special for it. Patti
Patti, consider something that will grow as a 'transition' from land (rocks) to water. Something like creeping jenny, though there are other candidates.
Victor, Oh, I read your ground cover article with keen interest and have taken some notes. I have some stuff in Vt to creep this way as soon as we can dig up there. Too much snow still. We will be softening the edges by popping out stones to replace with plants and I have lots of room to play with along the edges. I left a lot of untrimmed liner that will be uncovered and trimmed back once we get planting. Can't wait to "natualise" it. DH wants ferns. We had some growing down there in what we always called "The Dell" and I moved them, but I disturbed so much dirt that I may have killed many plants. I hope the ferns come back and I will add more. I was naive about the amount of earth that I needed to move. Patti
Oh good Lord Patti, looked at your slideshow, what have I got myself into? LOL I had an opportunity to drag my feet through the soil yesterday and take some measurements. Looks like the "stream" area would be about 12' long emptying into what I envision as a 5' pool. I'm still drawing a blank as how to actually pull this one off, but I'm not giving up!
This is a picture of the area I'm working with. The white shows the area of the stream bed dropping into the pool. Black is where the path will follow and the gray indicates where I would like to place a large flat rock to cross over the stream. The two "poles" of Black Bamboo in the photo were placed there yesterday to get a "feel" for the open fence I'm hoping to create as a backdrop. Just another "project" on my long list :(
Actually, the open fence is being created to block the view of the neighbor's house on the hill and the ugly structure that a new neighbor built after we constructed our sitting deck with what once was a beautiful view of the mountains. Rick refers to it as the "West Virginia gas station"! Have no idea what this gentleman had in mind when he built this monstrosity but everyone who sees it when visiting asks "What IS that?" Whatever IT is, it sure wrecked our "beautiful view" not to mention that he made a mess with his heavy equipment and gouged the field. My design of this area has now also changed, we will definitely be planting taller trees to hide his mess and re-create the privacy we once had :((
Looks like fun, Debbie. Yes, you definitely need to screen that 'view'! What a bummer. Love your open space though. Any trees in mind? Evergreen?
Definitely a "bummer" - Rick's description of what he did with the field - "he raped the landscape" :((( The view of the Blue Ridge Mtns is beautiful with the sun setting on them at the end of the day and hopefully I'll enjoy many relaxing moments here at the end of the day. Our planting will include several evergreens for blocking the "view" all year and Japanese Maples, etc. which will help during the summer. Unfortunately the deciduous trees and shrubs won't help much during the winter but I don't intend to be spending much time "relaxing" in this area when the cold winds blow! LOL The evergreen in the first picture is a new Leyland Cypress 'Gold Rider' we picked up in January - a fast grower! I had selected the spot behind the bamboo fence but yesterday we chose another spot to plant it on the other side of the grass you see in the second picture so it will provide a better block of that monstrosity. We have some regular Leyland Cypress we're planning to plant a hedge of just behind the 'Gold Rider' because they grow so fast here, that is if we can keep the deer away from them!
I dragged Rick to the water pond seminar yesterday and I'm happy to report that he's no longer giving me the "evil eye" when I discuss my intentions for this area :) He is, however, still attempting to curb my enthusiasm - I want it done and I want it done NOW! There are so many other unfinished "projects" and I do tend to jump ahead of myself LOL This picture shows one of the unfinished projects - this is the "sitting deck" we built last year where I'll be relaxing at the end of the day. I sketched in the copper arbor I started building last month which has all been cut and just waiting for me to put it together and install. Dragging my feet because I'm hesitant to try my hand at soldering and would rather just put it together with epoxy glue but hopefully one way or the other it will be done soon.
Are you set on Leyland, Deb? I have never had any but I know that they're falling out of favor. They need pruning and I believe may have some disease/pest issues. If you don't mind the ultimate size (big!), Norway spruce grows very fast. So does Thuja 'Green Giant', though I'm not really crazy about it - I have one. There is a western arborvitae that is reputedly deer resistant.
I put my copper arch arbor together from a kit using only epoxy.
Ohhhhh A copper arbor. Was it very expensive, Victor?
I don't remember- was about 7 or 8 yrs ago.
Ahhhh ...
copper was a bit less expensive back then. It's really gotten up there in price in the past few years.
Quoting:
Are you set on Leyland, Deb?
Actually I forgot, the Leylands are going along the edge of the gulch where the trees are which is quite a distance from our actual gardens. I've read about the problems the Leylands are developing, but we have a beautiful one at the top of the driveway so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. They're available and ready for planting, so no expense :) Closer to the gardens we're planning to plant Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Blue Ice' and Cupressus arizonica var. glabra 'Golden Pyramid' for evergreens and we have a slew of Magnolias that were given to us that will peppered in here and there. Our choices right now are endless, it's just a matter of when to find the time to dig the holes!
Victor, any pictures of your arbor? Curious what kind of epoxy you used. When I asked the guy at Lowes for advice he was clueless :(
Candyce, when I was first inspired to create my arbor, all of the instructions I found indicated you could build it for around $100, but these were based on copper prices from several years ago. I was shocked when I started buying the copper - I had estimated with all the lengths I would need that it would be less than $200, but after buying all the tees, etc - it's already over $250 :( Of course, my arbor is 8' wide so you could build a smaller one for much cheaper. FYI, in our area the copper runs about $11.00 for 1/2" pipe and around $16-$20 for 3/4" pipe. I needed about 140' of the different sizes :(
I have 'Blue Ice'. So far I'm disappointed with the color - just has not been blue at all. Someone posted a photo of one of his recently on SW gardens and it was awesome. Don't know what's up with mine.
I'll dig up some photos of the arbor. It's very simple. The epoxy came with the kit - standard two part mix.
Here's that photo, Deb.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4612124